Can anyone suggest a program available or readings available that will help fine tune management skills. My wife and i tend to disagree with the way we manage the guys, respectively. She tends to be the mother type, nurturing and protecting. I keep telling her that you are their boss and not their mother. I always tend to be the bad guy and she tells me that I am too tough on the guys.
We do have a tight knit company and culture and the guys are well taken care of. My problem is that they tend to walk all over us, due to my wife's nurturing. For example, I discovered damage to one of the trucks recently. WE have a real strict policy on this type of thing. I asked her if anyone had reportedit to her and her response was "No." After a week of practically interrogating the guys, I found out that one of them did report it to her. Her response to me was basically that she didn't want thim to get into trouble by me for it. Accidents happen......I understand this.
Anyhow, that's only one of a million examples.
I told her this morning that she needs to act like their boss and not their mother!!!